Jean Lambert MEP, Green PartyJean Lambert is London’s Green Party Member of the European Parliament – a position she has held since 1999. Jean works on a range of social and environmental concerns, to build a more just and sustainable future. She is particularly interested in linking climate change and environmental issues with the social agenda.Jean has published reports on green work, climate change and housing, environment and refugees, work-life balance, energy and waste, and social inclusion, including on 'Social Europe'. She has produced DVDs on green jobs and involving young people in environmental justice issues.

John SauvenDirector, GreenpeaceDescribed by the The Times as a ‘suave political insider’ John Sauven trained as an economist before setting up his own printing company and working in publishing. He joined Greenpeace in the early nineties and has been Executive Director since September 2007. John Sauven believes Greenpeace's ongoing work on solutions with companies may win fewer headlines, but the effort to evolve new, more sustainable business models is where the future will be won or lost. This is particularly the case with climate change where cleaner, more efficient products, processes and ways of producing energy need to be brought to market by government regulation and company innovation.

John VidalEnvironmental Editor, The GuardianJohn Vidal is the Guardian's Environment editor. He joined the paper in 1995 after working for Agence France Presse, North Wales Newspapers and the Cumberland News. He is the author of McLibel: Burger Culture on Trial (1998) and has contributed chapters to books on topics such as the Gulf war, new Europe and development.

Professor Sir Brian HoskinsDirector, Grantham Institute for Climate ChangeSir Brian Hoskins became the first Director of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change at Imperial College London in January 2008, and now shares his time between Imperial and Reading University, where he is Professor of Meteorology.His international roles have included being vice-chair of the Joint Scientific Committee for the World Climate Research Programme, President of the International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences and involvement in the 2007 IPCC international climate change assessment. He has also had numerous UK roles, including playing a major part in the 2000 Report by The Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution that first proposed a 60% target for UK carbon dioxide emission reduction by 2050, and is currently a member of the UK Committee on Climate Change. He is a member of the science academies of the UK, USA, China and Europe and has received a number of awards including the top prizes of the UK and US Meteorological Societies and honorary DScs from the Universities of Bristol and East Anglia. He was knighted in 2007 for his services to the environment.

Dr Ed HawkinsClimate Scientist, Reading UniversityEd Hawkins is a climate scientist in NCAS-Climate at the Department of Meteorology, University of Reading. His research interests are in decadal variability and predictability of climate, especially in the Atlantic region, and in quantifying the different sources of uncertainty in climate predictions and impacts. Ed is a Contributing Author to IPCC AR5 and a member of the CLIVAR Scientific Steering Group.

Professor Chris ThomasEcologist, University of YorkProfessor Chris Thomas FRS is an ecologist, based at the University of York. He is known for identifying the impacts of climate change on biodiversity and developing conservation strategies to protect threatened species and ecosystems. He has written ~250 scientific articles and has co-edited nine international scientific journals. His work on climate change impacts has been quoted in the media in most countries in the world and he has influenced the development of national and international policies for conservation and climate change.

Dr Chris BrierleyClimate Modelling, UCLDr Brierley is a climate modeller who is interested both in uncertainty in future projections and the climate of millions of years ago. He joined UCL two years ago and has launched MSc programs in both climate change and environmental modelling.

Stefan SchurigDirector of Climate Energy, World Future CouncilDipl. Ing. Stefan Schurig is an architect by training and devoted most of his career to energy and climate change issues. Before he became the Director Climate Energy at the World Future Council (WFC) in 2007 he was the spokesperson for Greenpeace in Germany from 1998-2002 and subsequently became member of the Senior Management Team as Director Climate Energy until 2007. During this time he also co-founded one of Germany’s first 24/7 green electricity supplier.He works as advisor for governments, parliamentarians and civil society organisations around the globe and authored various publications on climate change, energy and sustainable cities.

David HoneChief Climate Change Advisor, ShellDavid Hone works for Royal Dutch Shell and is the Chief Climate Change Adviser in the CO2 team. He joined Shell in 1980 after graduating as a Chemical Engineer from the University of Adelaide in Australia. He has worked in refinery technology, oil trading and shipping areas for Shell. David is currently Chairman of the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) and a board member of C2ES. He also works closely with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and has been a lead author of a number of its climate change publications. David posts regular stories on his energy & climate change blog, which can be found at http://blogs.shell.com/climatechange

Professor Nick PidgeonSchool of Psychology, Cardiff UniversityNick is currently Professor of Psychology at Cardiff University, where he directs the Understanding Risk Research Group (www.understanding-risk.org). He is also Principal Investigator on the UKERC project ‘Transforming the UK energy system – Public values, attitudes and acceptability’. His research looks at risk perception, risk communication, and public engagement with environmental and technological risks. Currently a member of the Chief Scientist’s independent Science Advisory Group at the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change and also vice-Chair of the DEFRA/DECC social sciences expert panel. Co-editor with Roger Kasperson and Paul Slovic of The Social Amplification of Risk, Cambridge University Press, 2003 and with the late Barry Turner of the 2nd edition of Man Made Disasters, Butterworth Heinemann, 1997. He is a Fellow of the Society for Risk Analysis and an Honorary Fellow of the British Science Association.

Dr Yacob MulugettaCentre for Environmental Strategy, University of SurreyYacob Mulugetta is a Reader in the Centre for Environmental Strategy at the University of Surrey, UK. He has 20 years of research, teaching and policy advice experience specializing in the links between basic infrastructure provision and human welfare, rooted in sustainability principles of equity and environmental stewardship. He is the founding member of the African Climate Policy Centre (ACPC) at the UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia where he worked on the opportunities and constraints of pursuing low carbon development for economic transformation. He currently serves as a Coordinating Lead Author of the Energy Systems chapter of the IPCC’s 5th Assessment Report (Working Group III on Mitigation), and is a member of the core writing team for the IPCC synthesis report.

Caroline WatsonTransport Specialist, Energy Savings TrustCaroline Watson has worked at the Energy Saving Trust since 2007 as a transport specialist. Currently Caroline manages the PIFI 100 programme, the successor to last year’s Plugged in Fleets Initiative supporting fleets in the uptake of plug in vehicles. Caroline authored the PIFI findings report ‘Charging Forward’ The project provides unique insight into the plug in vehicle market. Caroline has written reports on the impacts of policy on travel behaviour (aviation and the uptake of low-carbon vehicle technologies), and has led a number of projects on a range of issues from car labelling, smarter driving and electric vehicles. Caroline regularly represents EST by speaking at events and in the media. She has been interviewed by, and has written for, a number of media outlets including Sky News, the Financial Times, the Evening Standard, the Guardian, New Business magazine and Automotive World. Previously Caroline worked as a policy advisor at the Environment Agency and as a researcher in the House of Commons. She has a Masters degree in Environmental Politics. Her areas of expertise include low-carbon transport, electric vehicles and smarter driving.

Dr Aris VrettosDirector of The Prince of Wales's Business & Sustainability Programme, University of Cambridge Aris is the Director of The Prince of Wales's Business & Sustainability Programme that runs seminars internationally and is responsible for CPSL’s open executive education programmes. He specialises in corporate sustainability and helps companies understand the implications and possibilities that sustainability creates for business.He was previously a senior advisor at the NGO think-tank, AccountAbility where he advised global organisations on leadership, sustainability and stakeholder engagement strategies and worked with the IFC and the UN Global Compact to promote sustainable finance and business innovation in emerging markets. He is a trained economist and journalist and holds an MSc in international money and banking from the University of Birmingham.

Ben KellardHead of Sustainable Business, Forum for the FutureAs a member of the Sustainable Business Team, Ben Kellard helps leaders to develop strategic sustainability priorities and then implement them. He also manages his company’s partnership with O2 and Unilever. Ben also leads Forum’s thinking on how businesses can embed sustainability across the organisation. Since studying Politics and then Philosophy at Edinburgh his interest has always been the role that influential organisations can play in helping people to thrive and secure a future for us all. Ben trained as an Organisation Development consultant at Ashridge Business School where he worked across many sectors, working with clients such as Novartis and the NHS on leadership, strategy and change projects.He then worked as an internal consultant at HBOS at a time of unprecedented change. This included working with Directors and their teams to support their change programmes. He also ran an innovative in-house master’s degree, based on live strategic issues. Ben is also a Chartered member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.

Dr Michael BlowfieldWriter, Senior Visiting Research Associate, Oxford University Michael 'Mick' Blowfield is an established researcher specialising in the roles of business in society around world. He has managed private sector, government, NGO and academic programmes in 4 continents and over 20 countries. He is Professor at Wolverhampton University, Senior Visiting Research Associate (University of Oxford) and a Fellow at London Business School.He has worked with industries as diverse as apparel, forestry, retail, health and commercial sex work. Corporate clients include Abbott Laboratories, Accenture BP, Cadbury, Nestle and UBS, and he has also worked for international agencies such as the World Bank and the United Nations.Turnaround Challenge, co-authored with Leo Johnson, is his third book for Oxford University Press. Others are the award-winning Corporate Responsibility, a new edition of which will be out in 2014, and Business and Sustainability (2012).

Edward SchwarzGeneral Manager, Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction Edward Schwarz was appointed as the inaugural General Manager of the Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction, created on December 1, 2003. Edward Schwarz was a journalist and worked as editor of monthly construction-trade magazine, and later of a daily newspaper covering the region of Zurich. In 1989, he was appointed editor-in-chief of a private radio station in the same region. From 1992, he was in charge of communications of a building materials holding company which was later integrated into the Holcim Group. In 1994 he became head of communications of the operations of Holcim in Switzerland. In 1999 Edward Schwarz joined Corporate Communications of the Holcim Group as head of internal and online communications.

Dr Antony MillnerResearch Fellow at Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics Dr. Antony Millner is a Research Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He works on a variety of issues in environmental economics, with a focus on climate change. Core themes of his work in the past few years include how to make policy choices in the face of "deep" uncertainty, the welfare economics of climate catastrophes, the political economy of environmental regulation, new approaches to discounting the future, and critiques of the empirical adequacy of economic models of climate policy. He has postgraduate degrees in physics and mathematics from the University of Cape Town and Cambridge University, a PhD in environment from Oxford University, and spent two years as a post-doctoral researcher in environmental economics at the University of California, Berkeley.

Nicolette BartlettSenior Programme Manager, University of CambridgeNicolette Bartlett currently leads CPSL’s projects focused on international climate issues – leading the development of the Corporate Leaders Network for Climate Action (CLN), an international network of business leadership groups focused on triggering the shift to low carbon, climate-resilient economies. She also leads on the international work of the Prince of Wales’s Corporate Leaders Group (CLG) and has played a key role in their international initiatives, the Communiqués on climate change, which are seen by many as the definitive statements from the international progressive business community in advance of the UN climate change negotiations. Most recently, she has worked with the consultancy Ecofys to analyse the potential of bottom-up international initiatives on accelerating emissions reductions in the short to medium term. Working with business platforms in Japan, Turkey, Brazil, Chile and South Africa, Nicolette has facilitated numerous high-level debates and discussions on key climate policy issues, such as carbon pricings and sits on the advisory panel for an Emissions Trading simulation initiative with major corporations in Brazil.

Giovanni BernardoFormer Research Economist, New Economics FoundationGiovanni joined NEF in October 2011 as consultant for the Great Transition initiative, and took on the role of research economist from November 2012 to October 2013. He was responsible for the development of a macroeconomic model, specifically in financial sector and environmental limits.Giovanni has a multidisciplinary background, having studied Banking, Finance and Financial Markets at the University of Pisa and completing a Masters degree (two-year advanced Italian laurea) in Local Sustainable Development. He is currently working on a PhD on Economics with a dissertation in Macroeconomics of Sustainability and System Dynamics. His research interests include macroeconomics, system dynamics, ecological economics, energy sustainability, financial instability and endogenous theory of money.

Professor Michael JacobsFormer Special Adviser to UK Prime Minister and Visiting Professor, London School of EconomicsMichael Jacobs is Senior Adviser at the Institute of Sustainable Development and International Relations in Paris, which is supporting the French Government on preparations for the UN climate conference in Paris in 2015. An economist and political scientist, he is Visiting Professor at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics, and in the Department of Political Science at University College London. From 2007 to 2010 he was Special Adviser to the Prime Minister at 10 Downing St, and before that (2004-2007) a member of the Council of Economic Advisers at the Treasury. He is Senior Adviser to the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate, Co-Editor of the Political Quarterly and a former General Secretary of the Fabian Society. His books include The Green Economy: Environment, Sustainable Development and the Politics of the Future (Pluto Press, 1991), Greening the Millennium? The New Politics of the Environment (ed, Blackwell, 1997), The Politics of the Real World (Earthscan 1996) and Paying for Progress: A New Politics of Tax for Public Spending (Fabian Society 2000).

Paul FryerSenior Consultant, IBMWith over 29 years of experience in the IT industry, Paul has had major roles in Sales, PR and Marketing. His current role in Field Enablement is helping drive transformational initiatives within IBM. He leads a team of professionals with the aim of ensuring that the 2500+ client facing IBM sellers in UK and Ireland have the right skills and knowledge to satisfy our clients’ needs in a smarter social world.